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6 days ago · John Dryden (; 19 August [O.S. 9 August] 1631 – 12 May [O.S. 1 May] 1700) was an English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who was appointed England's first Poet Laureate in 1668.He is seen as dominating the literary life of Restoration England to such a point that the period came to be known in literary circles as the Age of Dry...
Jun 27, 2024 · John Dryden admired the Académie Française and greatly deplored that the English had “not so much as a tolerable dictionary, or a grammar; so that our language is in a manner barbarous” as compared with elegant French.
Jun 25, 2024 · John Dryden's "Alexander's Feast, or the Power of Music" (1688) was an occasional poem commissioned as part of the royal commemoration of the feast day of Cecilia, within the...
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3 days ago · Dryden wrote a wide variety of forms of poetry, including satires, odes, panegyrics, elegies, and prologues. In addition to writing poetry, he wrote plays and literary criticism. Some of his early work was reminiscent of the late metaphysical poets, but Dryden is primarily considered to be a neoclassical poet.
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Jun 26, 2024 · John Dryden, in his essay “ Of Dramatick Poesie” (1668) and other essays, condemned the improbabilities of Shakespeare’s late romances. Shakespeare lacked decorum , in Dryden’s view, largely because he had written for an ignorant age and poorly educated audiences.
